The first line of the song “Dancing Through Life” from the musical turned movie series “Wicked” claims that the trouble with schools is that they always try to […]
Ottman Tertuliano Named 2026 CIFAR Global Scholar
Ottman Tertuliano, AMA Family Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), has been inducted into the 2026 CIFAR Global Scholars program, an international initiative that supports […]
Celebrating Student Excellence 2026
Every year, students are honored with awards recognizing exceptional scholarly accomplishments and their invaluable service to both the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) and the wider […]
Shawn Koohy Receives Fall 2025 Outstanding TA Award
Shawn Koohy, a Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Ph.D. candidate, has been awarded the Fall 2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Mechanical Engineering in recognition of his contributions […]
Mateusz Jaszczuk Defends Master’s Thesis on Real-Time Adaptive Control in Robotics
Mateusz Jaszczuk, a master’s candidate in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), has completed his thesis, “Learning to Feel: Force-Aware Data-Driven Estimation and Control for Adaptive Physical Interactions,” […]
Senior Design Day 2026
Each spring, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) hosts Senior Design Day, an annual event showcasing the capstone projects of its graduating seniors. The event […]
Innovation & Impact Podcast: Inventing for the Real World with Penn’s National Academy of Inventors Fellows
In this episode of Penn Engineering’s Innovation & Impact podcast, host Vanessa Chan, Vice Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, sits […]
From Senior Design to Startup: Orble Brings Boba to Towne
Late nights in Towne just got a little sweeter. Orble, a student-founded startup that began as a 2023 senior design project, has launched its first boba tea vending […]
Yifei Ren Receives 2026 John A. Goff Prize
The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) is pleased to announce that Yifei Ren, a doctoral candidate in MEAM, has been selected as the recipient of […]
When Bone Behaves Like a Sponge: A New Platform for Observing How Cells Feel Force
Bone may look solid, but at the scale of the cells that live inside it, it behaves more like a sponge. Every step, jump or stretch compresses bone’s […]